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Mustapha’s Sefrou Story

Subsaharan Migration in Sefrou

Arts-based engagement ethnography

Mustapha’s Sefrou Story

Mustapha, a kind weaver from the heart of the medina, spoke to us about the Sefrou of his childhood – a Sefrou where Jews and Muslims lived and worked as […]

January 19, 2022November 17, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Subsaharan Migration in Sefrou

Though much attention in recent years has focused on sub-Saharan Africans attempting to reach Europe, migration within West Africa is roughly nine times larger than movements from the region toward […]

January 12, 2022November 10, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Arts-based engagement ethnography

Here at the Sefrou Association for Multidisciplinary Arts – SAMA – we are always looking for new ways to gather and present knowledge and research with and about Sefrou and its community.  One current […]

January 5, 2022October 20, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Memories of Sefrou

Le Maroc, pour moi, né à Fès en 1947, c’est d’abord Sefrou où nous avons habité de 1949 à 1958. Mon père vient d’être nommé directeur de l’antenne locale de […]

December 22, 2021October 4, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Zettata and Nisba: the Makings of Multiculturalism

The zettata In the narrow sense, a zettata (from the Berber tazettat, “a small piece of cloth”) is a passage toll, a sum paid to a local power (Arabic: zettāt; […]

December 1, 2021December 13, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

The Sunday Market of Guigou

Above is a short film we made of visiting the market of Guigou. For the narration of the video, I used material from the celebrated Sefrou anthropologist, Professor Clifford Geertz. […]

November 24, 2021October 3, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Trade and Turn-of-the-century Sefrou

Though Sefrou is today essentially a regional market, a place where half-commercialized tribesmen meet super-commercialized shopkeepers on free if somewhat less than equal ground, it has not always been thus. […]

November 17, 2021October 12, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Contemporary Poetry from the Heart of Sefrou (Part II)

Last week, we posted a video of Soufiane Elouahhabie performing his poem, titled Sefrou. In this week’s video, below, Soufiane guides us through what this poem is about. He also […]

November 10, 2021October 3, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Contemporary Poetry from the Heart of Sefrou

Soufiane Elouahhabie is an oral and written poet from Sefrou. He has published his work in print (click here for a link to an earlier post of two poems by […]

November 3, 2021October 3, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

Inspired by the Museum Collection: Mezuzah

In our museum collection is a mezuzah scroll, formerly used by a Jewish household in Sefrou. A mezuzah also once hung on the right-hand post of the bridge to the […]

October 27, 2021October 3, 2021 stephensjess Uncategorized

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    January 19, 2022
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    Subsaharan Migration in Sefrou

    January 12, 2022
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    Arts-based engagement ethnography

    January 5, 2022
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    Memories of Sefrou

    December 22, 2021
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    Zettata and Nisba: the Makings of Multiculturalism

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